Every now and then, our cultural zeitgeist coughs up a new public Rorschach test, the sort of big, emotionally charged issue that almost everyone can have an opinion on, and almost everyone can get really mad at other people for having the wrong opinion on. The internet has, of course, accelerated this process…
Ever since classy, high-end movie streaming service FilmStruck was shuttered late last year, Warner Bros. has been promising some kind of replacement to fill that “where to watch our HD Bergman movies” gap in all our lives. Now that replacement, The Criterion Channel, is less than a month away from launch, debuting on…
Jon Favreau’s upcoming Star Wars TV Western The Mandalorian keeps making the kind of behind-the-scenes decisions that intrigue us despite ourselves—which is sort of just a fancy way of saying he keeps asking Taika Waititi to do stuff for the show. The What We Do In The Shadows director was already on the hook to direct
We were already suitably disturbed by the brightly sinister trailer for Midsommar, the second big horror release from Hereditary writer-director Ari Aster. But now you can color us officially “intrigued,” courtesy of a new description Aster recently busted out for his upcoming Scandanavian folk-horror flick, one that…
In what we can only assume is some kind of supervillain-ass effort to flood the entire planet in the tears of struggling, broken musicians, we’re procedurally mandated to report today that an algorithm now has a record deal.
In a turn oddly fitting for a movie all about deception and controversy, a weird wrinkle has recently cropped up in the backstory of last year’s true-crime delight Can You Ever Forgive Me?. A few weeks ago, Julianne Moore opened up publicly about how she was still kind of miffed about getting fired from the part of…
Despite the massive box office returns of recent Marvel movies and Star Wars installments, James Cameron’s Avatar remains the highest grossing film of all time by a significant margin. Released in 2009, Avatar captivated the nation with its impressive visuals, technical achievements, and big, blue cat people. In the…
It sounds dirty, but we swear it’s not. A GoFundMe campaign seeking to change the name of Dripping Springs, TX, a tiny Hays County hamlet west of Austin, to Pound Town. Yes, we’re aware that’s what your uncle calls his bedroom, but the goal here isn’t to make Mom blush, but rather to honor town founders Dr. Joseph and…
No longer will the Winchester brothers save people or hunt things, for CW’s insanely long-running Supernatural will come to an end following its 15th season, which is set to air next year.
Every once in a while we run into casting news that is so perplexing, it’s actually quite brilliant.
This week, like all weeks in recent memory, has been a long one. Your reward for making it to end? A video of Arnold Schwarzenegger chasing a mini-pony named Whiskey on a mountain bike, set to Toby Keith’s “Should’ve Been a Cowboy.” You’re welcome.
Attention, vinyl collectors! A new, unique series of pressings were just announced that will make a great, albeit macabre addition to any record collection. As Pitchfork reports, “The Library Of Dangerous Thoughts” is a new, limited series from the digital museum Collecteurs, the University Of The Underground, and the …
Brie Larson is taking a brief break from her Captain Marvel duties to make her global directorial debut. Per a recent press release from Netflix, Unicorn Store tells the story of a 20-something dreamer named Kit who moves back in with her parents after failing out of art school. After landing a temp job in a drab…
Chuck Klosterman’s 2003 book Sex, Drugs And Cocoa Puffs caused millennials everywhere to revisit the latter-day episodes of Saved By The Bell, when a leather-clad Tori Scott stepped in for Kelly Kapowski and Jessie Spano for 10 confusing episodes. Klosterman argues that the “Tori Paradox” isn’t so much confusing as it…
Following up on a 2014 docuseries from Red Bull Music Academy, Scottish DJ Kode9 did a very good job shining a light on the composers responsible for scoring old Japanese video games with Diggin’ In The Carts, a 2017 compilation of relatively obscure, but foundational ‘80s and ‘90s tracks.
With the ink drying on a whole batch of new contracts, ABC has officially green-lit a second season of The Conners, Variety reports. It’s been five months since the family sitcom, a Hail Mary spin-off of the revived series starring Roseanne Barr, premiered but it was probably never in any real danger of not getting…
Bohemian Rhapsody’s got a lot of problems, though one that’s drummed up a surprising amount of online vitriol is its editing, with one scene in particular becoming a source of viral fascination. Last week, we shared a video breaking down the 60 cuts spread throughout a 104-second scene where Queen meets their…
American Horror Story and Pose creator Ryan Murphy will christen his pivot to Netflix with The Politician, a comedy starring Pitch Perfect’s Ben Platt as a teenage go-getter with eyes on the Oval Office. Today, the streamer has shared a synopsis for the satirical comedy series, as well as a premiere date for its first…
The Thursday night box office numbers for Jordan Peele’s Us are in and the horror maestro already appears to be outdoing himself. Us accumulated an impressive $7.4 million in its Thursday night box office previews from 3,150 screens. That’s a $5.6 million increase from Get Out’s 2017 preview intake. Per independent…
For anyone still waking up hearing the reality-bending scream that ended Twin Peaks: The Return, an upcoming, ridiculously long podcast is here to help soothe your mind. Over the course of 18 goddamned hours, film critics Darren Mooney and Andrew Quinn will raise money for the Irish Cancer Society’s annual Daffodil…
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